I have always liked to hibernate in the winter, particularly in January. It feels good after the December rush, the gift buying, the holiday parties, the overindulgence, to just slow down and get acquainted with my apartment again. I like to think of it as a time to gather up my energies before the inevitability […]
Ch-Ch-Ch- Changes
The air feels different today. Cleaner. Filled with hope and promise. It’s official now. Barack Obama has been inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States and we are all off on a new adventure. I am often struck by why I chose this particular moment in time to venture on a personal […]
A Little Lipstick Can Turn It All Around
Sometimes when you are outside of the corporate conference room, it is easier to see how foolish the decisions made inside of it can be. Take NBC. First the network says it will cancel Lipstick Jungle and then they follow that up with announcing five nights of Jay Leno in prime time. Five nights […]
What I Miss About Corporate Life
When people ask me if I miss corporate life at all, my answer, without pause, is no. With the exception of a handful of close friends I worked with daily and the paycheck every two weeks I don’t miss much. But today I did. I was working on my blog. Not writing a new […]
Pink…. For New Beginnings
The stats are out and apparently another 524,000 joined the ranks of the downsized in December. The word is that the numbers of those who have received pink slips this year has swelled to a sixteen year high. Ouch! Apparently I am not alone on my reinvention journey. It got me to thinking, why pink? […]
Bull’s Eye !
I am just flat out bragging about my friend Linda Eckstein. If you have not seen this yet, check out Vanity Fair. Linda, an information designer and artist, was commissioned by the editors of vf.com to create a graphic based upon their fascination with the web of intrigue described in Russ Baker’s just released Family […]
